Monday, January 31, 2011

Picture Book Marathon Eve

On your mark....get set.........


Tomorrow starts the Picture Book Marathon! 28 days of ideas! It's crunch time!
(ugh...I am so not ready for this...here we go.)

Friday, January 28, 2011

Picture Book Marathon Prep...2

T-minus four days to the Picture Book Marathon.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Percy: The Little Big Dragon p.19


And there you have it, the last page of Percy. I hope you enjoyed it!

I did a library visit last night in South Jordan, a Moms and Daughters book group. Rapunzel was their book this month. I did my illustration presentation and we all ate Red Vines. It was fun!

I had a quick visit with Shannon and Dean Hale too, a little Team Rapunzel reunion. What did we discuss? Mostly "My Neighbor Totoro" and why so many people who love Rapunzel have never heard of Calamity Jack. I asked the book group to raise their hands if they'd read Jack--nobody raised a hand! It's a mystery. We also realized that between the three of us, only one has a book coming out in 2011. Dean stands alone, his picture book SCAPEGOAT comes out this summer (still in my top three strangest picture books--it's weird. I can't wait to see the final!)

It'll be a little quiet here this week. We're heading into the Picture Book Marathon next week, so Thursday and Friday's post will be low key, if not, non-existent. Gotta rest up for the big race.

You all know about Calamity Jack, right? Right? I don't want to sound like a conspiracy-theory-nutcase, but I think there has to be some kind of secret government shadow agency keeping Calamity Jack down.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Percy: The Little Big Dragon p.18


There will be one more page after this one, the "The End" page--gotta have one of those. Then Percy will be over!

Friday, January 21, 2011

Percy: The Little Big Dragon p.16


My wise man is based on Mark Twain, who's quote that is (originally about a dog, not a dragon.) Can you tell it's him? Not that it's important to the story, just a little detail to catch.